I am an emeritus professor from Cornell University and was a Commissioned Lay Preacher in the Presbyterian Church (USA). For many years I have followed the Daily Lectionary as printed in the Mission Yearbook of my church. For each day of a two-year cycle, the lectionary lists four psalms and three other scriptural passages--usually one from the Old Testament and two from the New Testament. My practice is to copy down a verse or two from one of the psalms and from each of the other three passages. After I have written out all four selections, I reflect upon them, rearrange their order, and incorporate them into a meditation. Sometimes I retain much of the original wording; sometimes all that remains of a selection is an idea that was stimulated when I read the original words. All selections are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible. For the Daily Lectionary, see the link below.

To Be Sent by God--Jan. 2, 2021

 

You sent Abram, O God; he went;

You sent us Jesus, and he came;

We ponder your steadfast love

to ask where you send us. 

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 48; 149; 9; 29

Gen. 12:1-7

Heb. 11:1-12

John 6:35-42, 48-51

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 48:9

We ponder your steadfast love, O God,
          in the midst of your temple.

 

Gen. 12:1

Now the LORD said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you.  …”

 

Heb. 11:8

By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to set out for a place that he was to receive as an inheritance; and he set out, not knowing where he was going. 

 

John 6:39

“…And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day.  …”  [Jesus, to those who did not accept him]


Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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